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Main Authors: Alam, Syed Eqbal, Shu, Zhan
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00319
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author Alam, Syed Eqbal
Shu, Zhan
author_facet Alam, Syed Eqbal
Shu, Zhan
contents We develop algorithms for collaborative control of AI agents and critics in a multi-actor, multi-critic federated multi-agent system. Each AI agent and critic has access to classical machine learning or generative AI foundation models. The AI agents and critics collaborate with a central server to complete multimodal tasks such as fault detection, severity, and cause analysis in a network telemetry system, text-to-image generation, video generation, healthcare diagnostics from medical images and patient records, etcetera. The AI agents complete their tasks and send them to AI critics for evaluation. The critics then send feedback to agents to improve their responses. Collaboratively, they minimize the overall cost to the system with no inter-agent or inter-critic communication. AI agents and critics keep their cost functions or derivatives of cost functions private. Using multi-time scale stochastic approximation techniques, we provide convergence guarantees on the time-average active states of AI agents and critics. The communication overhead is a little on the system, of the order of $\mathcal{O}(m)$, for $m$ modalities and is independent of the number of AI agents and critics. Finally, we present an example of fault detection, severity, and cause analysis in network telemetry and thorough evaluation to check the algorithm's efficacy.
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spellingShingle Collaborative AI Agents and Critics for Fault Detection and Cause Analysis in Network Telemetry
Alam, Syed Eqbal
Shu, Zhan
Artificial Intelligence
Multiagent Systems
We develop algorithms for collaborative control of AI agents and critics in a multi-actor, multi-critic federated multi-agent system. Each AI agent and critic has access to classical machine learning or generative AI foundation models. The AI agents and critics collaborate with a central server to complete multimodal tasks such as fault detection, severity, and cause analysis in a network telemetry system, text-to-image generation, video generation, healthcare diagnostics from medical images and patient records, etcetera. The AI agents complete their tasks and send them to AI critics for evaluation. The critics then send feedback to agents to improve their responses. Collaboratively, they minimize the overall cost to the system with no inter-agent or inter-critic communication. AI agents and critics keep their cost functions or derivatives of cost functions private. Using multi-time scale stochastic approximation techniques, we provide convergence guarantees on the time-average active states of AI agents and critics. The communication overhead is a little on the system, of the order of $\mathcal{O}(m)$, for $m$ modalities and is independent of the number of AI agents and critics. Finally, we present an example of fault detection, severity, and cause analysis in network telemetry and thorough evaluation to check the algorithm's efficacy.
title Collaborative AI Agents and Critics for Fault Detection and Cause Analysis in Network Telemetry
topic Artificial Intelligence
Multiagent Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00319